Word: 137th
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week in its 137th year Roosevelt & Son announced a complete breakup in anticipation of the provision of the Banking Act of 1933 which requires private bankers to segregate their banking business from their securities business before next June. Thus the oldest investment firm in Wall Street became the first to submit to the new Roosevelt rule...
...while eel-hipped, coffee-skinned Josephine Baker wriggled with abandon through the scenes of Shuffle Along, an obscure young Negress in the chorus named Catherine Yarborough was saving her subway nickels by trudging from the stage door on 63rd Street to her dingy $3.50-a-week room on 137th Street. Few years later, both women migrated from Broadway to Europe, the racy Josephine to gaudy fame in the Casino de Paris, Catherine Yarborough to drudge over the scores of Aïda and L'Africaine in France and Italy. Some day she meant to return, become the first Negro...